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He adds that grounding the details of their world in reality, making them as precise as possible, makes the invented, fantastic elements seem that much more believable.
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According to Matt Wright, the team designed Magnusson's rocket around blueprints from the Titan family of missiles instead of just making up something that fit their fantasies of a rocket.Given that the satellite has no life support equipment, it can therefore be assumed that Lamarr will eventually die. The player has the opportunity to close the hatch with Lamarr inside. Earlier in the silo chamber Lamarr can be seen crawling into the hatch on the rocket. Kleiner reported before launch that the rocket had a payload anomaly of 8 lbs. When all is safe, and the rocket is fully prepared, Gordon receives the honor of launching the rocket and finally closing the Superportal and the last remaining link to the Combine Overworld. Upon arrival to the base, Alyx and Gordon are put to work preparing the rocket for launch, and even defending the base from the weakened Combine's attempts to stop the launch. Magnusson orders them to get to White Forest Base as soon as possible, believing that the codes Alyx is carrying can be used to close the Superportal via a rocket the base had been preparing for some time. If a single mine is detonated a catastrophic explosion will happen, resulting in a game-over.Īfter Gordon and Alyx's escape from City 17 and the Citadel's collapse, Alyx attempted to make contact with White Forest to tell them about the codes she retrieved in the Citadel and the situation of the Superportal. Two more rockets are encountered later in the chapter Surface Tension, located in a large warehouse booby-trapped with many trip mines. However, it's later revealed that though the satellite did manage to close the rift on their side, it's still being held open on the other side by a powerful being, later revealed to be Nihilanth.
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Gordon manages to take down the soldiers and launch the rocket, delivering the satellite and successfully closing the portal to Xen. During the Black Mesa Incident several scientists at the facility prepare to launch a Satellite Delivery Rocket in an attempt to close the dimensional rift, only to be stopped by HECU personnel, leaving Gordon Freeman to complete the task himself.